Laughing – DNC-Consulting

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If careful calculation is correct, this is the third time I have written about humor, the power, the majesty, and the gut-splitting good times humor provides. Oddly enough, I am a big fan of dad jokes, but not a dad. I prefer humor that is funny for the fun, not the shocking or profane, merely a good laugh. Of the funniest songs I have ever heard, Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown take the top billing with the song, “Make ‘em Laugh.” Cole Porter also tickled my funny bone with a similar song, “Be a Clown.” However, since I detest clowns, I cannot like this song very much. Both songs are linked for your listening and watching pleasure. Do you find clowns creepy in the Stephen King kind of creepy?

Computer Humor One of the truths about humor is embedded in the lyrics of Make ‘em laugh:

Cosmo:
Though the world is so full of a number of things,
I know we should all be as happy as
But are we?
No, definitely no, positively no.
Decidedly no. Mm mm.
Short people have long faces and
Long people have short faces.
Big people have little humor
And little people have no humor at all!
And in the words of that immortal buddy
Samuel J. Snodgrass, as he was about to be lead
To the guillotine:

Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh?
(Ha ha!)
My dad said, “Be an actor, my son
But be a comical one
They’ll be standing in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.”

Now you could study Shakespeare and be quite elite
And you can charm the critics and have nothin’ to eat
Just slip on a banana peel
The world’s at your feet
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh

Make ’em…
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh
My grandpa said go out and tell ’em a joke
But give it plenty of hoke

Make ’em roar
Make ’em scream
Take a fall
But a wall
Split a seam

You start off by pretending
You’re a dancer with grace
You wiggle ‘till they’re
Giggling all over the place
And then you get a great big custard pie in the face
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh

Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know… all the…wants..?
My dad…
They’ll be standing in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines

Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh?

Ah ha ha ha ha ha há
Ah ha ha ha ha ha
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Make ’em laugh, ah ah!
Make ’em laugh, ah ah!
Make ’em laugh, ah ah!

Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh!

10 Hilarious Toilet Humor Jokes That Will Make You Flush “Don’t you know that everyone wants to laugh?” There is much truth in this line, but laughing is a choice. We choose what to laugh at, decide when to laugh, and choose, with the resulting consequences, what is found humorous. The first time I saw the movie “Singing in the Rain,” from whence the song “Make ‘em laugh” originated, I thought this song was ridiculous. Recently I saw the movie again, and this song was hilariously funny and laughed so hard I cried. What changed; certainly wasn’t the movie which was made in 1952; the acting had not changed, the actors are dead; I changed. The first time I saw this movie, I was exhausted after prepping for a holiday meal, I was strung out from too much work, and nothing was funny. This last time, I had changed mentally and physically, which made all the difference. Thanksgiving Humor - Chris Cannon

What is the lie in the song “Make ‘em Laugh?” Simply put, nobody can make you emote if you choose not to, a powerful lesson indeed. I grew up in a big family, and there are seven of us kids; my uncle brought his four and then had a couple more, aunts, uncles, cousins, and more if you took the Salisbury family, those still living could still essentially fill a couple of venues. My older brother was always trying to “make you laugh.” He failed for many reasons; the first was I never thought he was funny. Pin by Lilly Gonzalez on Halloween Humor | Funny halloween jokes, Halloween jokes, Halloween memes

My older brother could take a joke I laughed at and kill the joke in the retelling. I never met another person so anxious to make people laugh and like him, who failed so completely and miserably. Take the funniest joke you know, put that joke in my older brother’s mouth, and that joke will fall flat, and you will wonder why it was funnier previously. It never ceases to amaze me how this person can kill a joke, especially when he is such a joke himself. No sense of humor Memes

Long have I maintained the following formula:

[(Dark Humor + Intelligent Humor + a Warped sense of Humor) (Shaken not stirred)] = Me laughing hysterically!

Abbott & Costello Coronavirus Humor : Nationals I like to laugh. I need to laugh, or the depression and anxiety become too great and I am angry. This last week has been no picnic with the continuing crush from the VA-OIG, add the IRS and several state departments of revenue, and I needed to find humor. Combined with the ongoing dissertation pains and the need for a good chuckle was mandatory! Without further ado, here are things that leave me laughing in the aisles. If repeats are found from previous posts, you have my apologies!

May you choose to enjoy!

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Bait & Switch I have been trying to find inspiration to write something for several hours now. There are so many things that trouble and infuriate me, but emotion is not a reason to write, and I will not play on my audience’s emotions to elicit a response. That is the path of the tyrant and a cheap hack!

But today, I just don’t have it mentally. The last couple of days with the VA, the continued oppression from the Biden administration, the multiple crises along the US/Mexico border, Afghanistan, volcanoes, … like the DJ said, “The hits just keep on coming!” My mind feels like the fabric of the world is being shredded, and there is nothing behind the curtain.

My cherub-like demeanor took too much of a hit this week. To discover that the VA has acceptable limits a provider can hurt/maim/injure/kill patients is beyond the scope of sanity to me. Now, I admit I am not the smartest person in the room. If you read the article linked and possess better capabilities and come to a different conclusion, please feel free to explain what is being discussed about dead veterans, a doctor, and how the VA-OIG can allow patients to expire without raising concerns. Curious Owl, HD Birds, 4k Wallpapers, Images, Backgrounds ...

On my desk are five owl statues carved in polished stone. They surround a stone frog, also in polished stone. Some days, I am the frog at the mercy of the predators. Some days, I am the predator looking for frog dinner. The first owl reminds me of a scrap of verse from my childhood.

“There was a wise old bird; the more he saw, the less he spoke, the less he spoke, the more heard, now wasn’t that a wise old bird?”

I first heard this in a movie with John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn, “Rooster Cogburn.” Never knew if I learned the scrap of verse right or not. Never cared. See, Kathrine Hepburn was a strong woman; she played an incredibly strong character wholly equal to John Wayne, and that was important. In the owl relationships, the female and male are equal partners, and this is important to me. I encourage people to be the main character in their life stories, be strong, independent, courageous, and never back down from anything!

The second owl is for Winnie-the-Pooh and Owl. Eyeore and Owl are my favorite characters from Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The calm demeanor of Owl always impressed me as a character trait to embody.

The third owl is probably the most important and comes from a lesson. I forget who taught the lesson. The lesson was “Who?” I was ranting about somebody, and something, and somewhere, and was belligerent. The person I was bellowing at kept asking, “Who?” That’s all they said, and eventually, it dawned on me that the problem wasn’t other people, the place, the situation, the problem was me, and the only thing I could change was me. I keep forgetting and re-learning this lesson to my chagrin and dismay. The teacher closed that lesson with a scrap of Latin, “Numquam nothi sudet te.” I learned the second lesson a lot better than the first.

cropped-laughing-owl The fourth owl reminds me to laugh. Have you ever heard owls laugh? There is a lesson in that for us mortals. For ages of human history, owls have been revered as wise, yet they possess the ability to laugh. Maybe, just maybe, we should practice more lessons from the owl and laugh, especially at ourselves.

The fifth owl reminds me of how I feel every time I see an owl, full of wonder and amazement. I see those eyes and think of the wonderful and amazing things I could see with those eyes. I think of how the owl can turn their heads and wish my neck could turn like that. How the owl can minutely control the feathers on the leading edge of their wings to control airflow for silent flight, and I think how cool would that be as a superpower! As a supreme klutz, the majesty and poetry of motion found in an owl are wonderful to me, and I like being reminded of the wonder in the world. Hear the Many Different Hoots of the Barred Owl | Audubon

One of my favorite memories of my grandmother was playing with her fiber-optic ornament. This was a heavy base with an electric cord and light shown through hundreds, if not thousands of fiber-optic strands. The decoration would change colors, and you could group different strands to shine them into different areas. On my desk is a fiber-optic Christmas tree on a USB plug.

Snowy Owl - Bubo scandiacus image - Free stock photo ... My apologies, dear reader, I do not mean to sound maudlin or pass along depression. I just don’t have it in me to engage in deeper subjects today, and I pray for your forgiveness. Please, take the time to hug your loved ones. Forgive your family and friends, and pray for America to survive the current political mess we find ourselves suffering.

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